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November 8, 1943

Jackson Pollock's first solo show opens at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of the Century Gallery in New York.

[Still from the movie 'Pollock']

October 16, 1942

[Still from the movie 'Pollock']

March 12, 1955

Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is dead at the age of 34. His body was so ravaged after years of drug abuse that the coroner who examined his body guessed his age to be between 50 and 60.

[Source: John Leland's book 'Hip: The History']

July 22, 1934

John Dillinger (1903-1934), the prohibition-era bank robber is shot dead outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. It is said that women dipped their hems in his blood on the sidewalk and five thousand people attended his funeral.

[Source: John Leland's book 'Hip: The History']

April 3, 1882

The first modern-day American outlaw, Jesse James, is killed by the bullet of his former accomplice, Robert Ford, who snucks up behind Jesse in a rented house in St Joseph, Missouri, and shoots him in the back as he is straightening a picture.

[Source: John Leland's book 'Hip: The History'] 

September 5, 1847

Jesse Woodson James is born in Clay County, Missouri as the second son of a farmer and itinerant minister.

[Source: John Leland's book 'Hip: The History']